The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Matty Cudjoe
Maccabi Petach Tikva asked and Bnei Sakhnin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Tomer Atzili joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tomer Atzili is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Adi Cohen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adi Cohen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Adi Hemed joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adi Hemed is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Ori Atzili from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ori Atzili has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva lose Ilay Altman
48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Nowaf Bazia
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nowaf Bazia, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Idan Dahan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nowaf Bazia remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Maccabi Petach Tikva would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
In brief
- Squad The dugout calls for Eitan Tibi
- Boardroom The Maccabi Petach Tikva academy earns its keep